PERSON

Ḥamzah ibn ʿAlī Saʿd al-Bayhaqī

Name (arabic)

حمزة بن علي سعد البيهقي

Name (translit)

Ḥamzah ibn ʿAlī Saʿd al-Bayhaqī

Alias

Bayhaqī
البيهقي
Saʿd al-Bayhaqī
Ḥamza ibn ʿAlī

Flourished

Lived in

Notes

Fl. early 8th/14th c. In addition to his compositions, Bayhaqī copied Ṭūsī's Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī in 722 H. [1322-3) at Ṣulṭanīya (London, British Library Or 1148). According to the Loth catalogue, Bayhaqī transcribed it from a copy which had been taken from the author's own copy and Bayhaqī collated it with another copy at Ṣulṭanīya in the Madrasa Rashīdiyya.

Number in MAMS

597, 723

ismi_id

184974

Authored Works

4 works:

Arithmetic: Practical/ḥisāb

Risālah bi-taʿrīf suʾūl wa-fawāʾid fī al-ḥisāb , رسالة بتعريف سؤول وفوائد في الحساب
Risālah fī al-ḥisāb mulḥaqah bi-al-Shamsiyyah , رسالة في الحساب ملحقة بالشمسيّة

Astronomy: Theoretical/hayʾaẗ al-ʿālam

Mukhtaṣar fī ʿilm al-hayʾah (Bayhaqī) , مختصر في علم الهيئة

Manuscript Witnesses copied by this person

1 witnesses:

References

Ragep, Sally. 2016. Jaghmīnī’s Mulakhkhaṣ: An Islamic Introduction To Ptolemaic Astronomy. New York: Springer-Verlag.

Appendix II, no. 4.

Rozenfeld, Boris, and Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu. 2003. Mathematicians, Astronomers And Other Scholars Of Islamic Civilisation And Their Works (7Th-19Th C.). Istanbul: Research Centre for Islamic History, Art, and Culture.

P. 248 (no. 723); p. 210 (no. 597).

İzgi, Cevat. 1997. Osmanlı Medreselerinde İlim: Riyazī Ilimler. 2 vol.. Istanbul: İz.

P. 391, e.11.

King, David. 1986. A Survey Of The Scientific Manuscripts In The Egyptian National Library. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns; The American Research Center in Egypt.

Pp. 150-1 (G19), pp. 155-6 (G39).

Loth, Otto. 1877. A Catalogue Of Arabic Manuscripts In The Library Of The India Office. Vol. 1. London: Stephen Austin and Sons.

Pp. 215-16 (no. 741).